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Sunday, May 27, 2012

cats and their kids in the london slums

Today's post comes to you courtesy of my good blogfriend John of It's All Good. Wait till you see what's he's found. In an online article featuring "The Children of London's Spitalfields Slums in Photographs 100 Years Ago," he spotted two photos that speak with particular eloquence:

2 comments:

What a find! I looked at them all. I wonder if those boys became cannon fodder for the First World War?

I think they would have posed for longer than we would have to do these days, and that maybe explains the rather tight grip the little girl has on her cat. By the look of the back legs the cat might have been ready to leap away.